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HS2 will provide more track, more trains, more seats and faster journeys to improve performance and reliability across Britain’s rail network.
The 125-metre-long machine began constructing the 3.5-mile (5.8km) Bromford Tunnel, which starts at the Warwickshire village of Water Orton and extends to the northeast Birmingham suburb of Washwood Heath, in July 2023.
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Specialist tunnelling teams spent 652 days and nights working underground to complete the mission.
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Our giant tunnelling machine Mary Ann has completed her 3.5-mile dig, marking the end of her mission to excavate the first bore of what will soon become the longest railway tunnel in the #WestMidlands.
Watch the impressive moment she broke though 🎥
youtu.be/Yywrn8wNsQk
We've successfully installed a 14,500-tonne box structure, which will carry the #HS2 line under the A46 in #Warwickshire.
The team will now complete drainage works and install a new road surface and markings, before reopening the road at 6am on Thursday, 1 May.
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